Here we come full-circle into a version of my Punk-Pink! remake, RuneSpark. At this point I was kinda trying to avoid hitting the readers with blatant fanservice, going for a more cutesy, old cartoon-style of storytelling. It begins with Li (Tenkyo, from Punk-Pink!) singing a nursery rhyme “Kings of Old”, which more or less tells a bit of her homeland’s history. She’s picked up by Phillip Marco, also a character from Punk-Pink!, who had just purchased a magic-powered car. They discuss the sudden prominence of magic-powered technology, and Marco is curious about the basket Li carried on her back, to which she responds that it’s for a magic show. As you can see, with four comics inked and two in the burner, I got a lot farther with this one before I started to realize that the story was going nowhere. I don’t think it’s unsalvageable, though, and I may actually put this one aside for later…